Daniel Konhauser
In his work, Daniel Konhauser provide interactive opportunities for audiences to become participants in the co-creation of the work. Tension is added with the intersection of real time interactions, with time-transformed, prerecorded events. His aim is to create work with an emotional effect, and to induce a personal, internal narrative in the audience. Daniel is endlessly fascinated by obsolete analog technologies and vintage forms, and reinvent and reinvestigate them with digital techniques. The lullaby is a long enduring practice, and his pieces, “Invisible Theremin” and “Optical Score”, encourage entrants to spontaneously create their own versions of this form.
Invisible Theremine
Composer, video maker, and sound artist Daniel Konhauser has for several decades created works ranging from music for dance to multi-media theatre to interactive video and sound installations. Konhauser’s work has been presented in numerous venues in the U.S., including Gray Area, CounterPULSE and The Lab in San Francisco, Krowswork and the MilkBar in Oakland, and Joyce SoHo in New York City. His artistic collaborators have included choreographer Maxine Moerman, musician Dina Emerson, visual artist Cheri Ibes, and the London based band Paper Dollhouse.
Konhauser’s dance video collaboration with Moerman, “Wander,” was selected for screening in The Performance/Mix festival in NYC. His interactive audio installation, “Public Phone Booth”, was selected for The Lab’s 25th Anniversary “PastForward” show. In 2010 Konhauser debuted his first public art piece, a Valencia Street storefront video and audio installation entitled, “The Late Late Show”. In 2015 he collaborated with Astrud Steehouder, of Paper Dollhouse, on an interactive Gregorian Chant. Recently he debuted an electronic Fortune Telling Machine, “Past Present Future”, at Gray Area.
Konhauser received his BFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently developing optical scores using Machine Learning technologies.
Interview on Medium:
https://medium.com/@GrayAreaorg/daniel-konhauser-punk-rock-dub-and-buddhism-7c0019a03abf
Optical Score